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Urban School Leadership

Author : Tom Payzant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780470918371
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Urban School Leadership written by Tom Payzant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book, written by educational expert and urban school leader, Tom Payzant, offers a realistic understanding of what urban school leadership looks like from the inside. Payzant shares his first-hand knowledge of the unique managerial, instructional, and political tasks of this role. Effectively combining practical lessons and research, Urban School Leadership includes in-depth analysis of various leadership concerns. The book covers topics such as improving student achievement, working with unions, building community, and maintaining and developing resources. Most importantly, it offers stories of real school leaders whose successes and missteps reveal the inherent "messiness" of this difficult job. Urban School Leadership is part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education series. "This important book provides compelling examples of how effective leaders can have hope, see progress, and achieve success for all children in the schools and districts they lead."—Richard Riley, former United States Secretary of Education "Tom Payzant is one of the few people who could provide such a comprehensive, useful book for educational leaders at all levels. This very practical book is grounded in the important experiences and impressive judgment of one of our nation's most successful school superintendents"—Jon Schnur, co-founder and CEO, New Leaders for New Schools "Tom Payzant is one of the finest urban educators of our generation. Urban School Leadership is compelling, crisp, and wise—providing a clear path for those dedicated to improving the trajectory of children's lives."—Timothy F.C. Knowles, executive director, Center for Urban School Improvement, University of Chicago "Urban School Leadership is a must read for anyone interested in the landscape of urban public education in America."—Beverly Hall, superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

Author : Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317412397
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools by : Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.

Download or read book Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools written by Joseph F. Johnson, Jr. and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership in America’s Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely on to make a difference at all levels of urban school leadership. Grounded in research, this volume reveals the multiple challenges that real urban elementary, middle, and high schools face as well as the catalysts for improvement. This insightful resource explores the critical leadership characteristics found in high-performing urban schools and gives leaders the tools to move their schools to higher levels of achievement for all students—but especially for those who are low-income, English-language learners, and from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. In shining a light on the essential qualities for exceptional leadership at all levels of urban schools, this book is a valuable guide for all educators and administrators to nurture, influence, support, and sustain excellence and equity at their schools.

Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools

Author : Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317921860
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools by : Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.

Download or read book Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools written by Joseph F. Johnson, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the teaching practices that make the biggest difference in student performance! This practical, research-based book gives principals, teachers, and school administrators a direct, inside look at instructional practices from top award-winning urban schools. The authors provide detailed examples and analyses of these practices, and successfully demystify the achievement of these schools. They offer practical guides to help educators apply these successful practices in their own schools. Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools will be a valuable tool for any educator in both urban and non-urban schools-schools that serve diverse student populations, including English language learners and children from low-income families.

Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership

Author : Muhammad Khalifa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442220856
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership written by Muhammad Khalifa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative handbook examines the community, district, and teacher leadership roles that affect urban schools. It will serve as a foundation for pedagogical and educational leadership practices that foster social justice, equity, and advocacy for those who have been traditionally and historically underserved in education. The handbook’s ten sections cover topics as diverse as curriculum, instruction, and educational outcomes; gender, race, and class; higher education; and leadership preparation and support. Its twenty-nine chapters offer both American and international perspectives.

The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership

Author : Sean B. Yisrael
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1610488261
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership written by Sean B. Yisrael and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership was written to give urban school principals strategies for successfully implementing change, and achieving systemic reforms. The book also gives aspiring and novice principals a window into the real issues that affect the prinicpalship, and the circumstances that can determine success or failure. Veteran principals can also learn how to better deal with some of the most challenging issues associated with students, parents, staff, and community members. This is an essential resource for any school leader working in an urban, or public school setting.

Urban School Leadership

Author : Tom Payzant
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787986216
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Urban School Leadership written by Tom Payzant and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book, written by educational expert and urban school leader, Tom Payzant, offers a realistic understanding of what urban school leadership looks like from the inside. Payzant shares his first-hand knowledge of the unique managerial, instructional, and political tasks of this role. Effectively combining practical lessons and research, Urban School Leadership includes in-depth analysis of various leadership concerns. The book covers topics such as improving student achievement, working with unions, building community, and maintaining and developing resources. Most importantly, it offers stories of real school leaders whose successes and missteps reveal the inherent "messiness" of this difficult job. Urban School Leadership is part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education series. "This important book provides compelling examples of how effective leaders can have hope, see progress, and achieve success for all children in the schools and districts they lead."—Richard Riley, former United States Secretary of Education "Tom Payzant is one of the few people who could provide such a comprehensive, useful book for educational leaders at all levels. This very practical book is grounded in the important experiences and impressive judgment of one of our nation's most successful school superintendents"—Jon Schnur, co-founder and CEO, New Leaders for New Schools "Tom Payzant is one of the finest urban educators of our generation. Urban School Leadership is compelling, crisp, and wise—providing a clear path for those dedicated to improving the trajectory of children's lives."—Timothy F.C. Knowles, executive director, Center for Urban School Improvement, University of Chicago "Urban School Leadership is a must read for anyone interested in the landscape of urban public education in America."—Beverly Hall, superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools

Culturally Responsive School Leadership

Author : Muhammad Khalifa
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1682532097
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Culturally Responsive School Leadership written by Muhammad Khalifa and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized students—those who have been historically marginalized in school and society. The book demonstrates how leaders can engage students, parents, teachers, and communities in ways that positively impact learning by honoring indigenous heritages and local cultural practices. Muhammad Khalifa explores three basic premises. First, that a full-fledged and nuanced understanding of “cultural responsiveness” is essential to successful school leadership. Second, that cultural responsiveness will not flourish and succeed in schools without sustained efforts by school leaders to define and promote it. Finally, that culturally responsive school leadership comprises a number of crucial leadership behaviors, which include critical self-reflection; the development of culturally responsive teachers; the promotion of inclusive, anti-oppressive school environments; and engagement with students’ indigenous community contexts. Based on an ethnography of a school principal who exemplifies the practices and behaviors of culturally responsive school leadership, the book provides educators with pedagogy and strategies for immediate implementation.

Urban Education

Author : Karen S. Gallagher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415872405
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Urban Education written by Karen S. Gallagher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume provides a 3-part conceptual model in which the achievement of equity for all - regardless of race, gender, or ethnicity - is is central to urban education.

Aim High, Achieve More

Author : Yvette Jackson
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416614923
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis Aim High, Achieve More by : Yvette Jackson

Download or read book Aim High, Achieve More written by Yvette Jackson and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2012 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many urban educators live in fear: of their schools being labeled failures, of increasingly punitive sanctions, of loss of respect and livelihood. This fear pervades the entire school community, affecting the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of its members. The authors of this guide to transformation in urban schools are convinced that the key ingredient for school renewal is fearless leadership. Fearless leaders work in schools under-resourced and overburdened and serve disproportionately large numbers of children who live in poverty and face racism daily. They are ordinary educators committed to proving that demographics need not be destiny. This inspirational yet practical book will help you bridge the divide that separates urban students from their birthright of a high-quality education. You will learn how to * Adopt a leadership approach, consisting of affirmation, inspiration, and mediation (AIM), that will transform your school into a flourishing learning community. * Build a leadership team of important stakeholders--including students--that is committed to improvement. * Tap into the resources that already exist in your school and jettison institutional arrangements that prevent your school from becoming an enriching and creative community. * Create supports that enable teachers to nurture their students' potential to meet high standards and become self-actualized learners. Each chapter closes with reflections and activities that will help your leadership team produce its own roadmap for change. Succeeding in the tough landscape of urban schools requires more than just passion and a sense of urgency; it requires real skills. Aim High, Achieve More provides insights gleaned from real-world experiences that will enable you to create a successful, vibrant learning environment.

Urban Education

Author : Karen Symms Gallagher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136869824
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Urban Education written by Karen Symms Gallagher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual and institutional); and funding levels. Although urban educators have been addressing these issues for decades, placing them under the umbrella of "urban education" and treating them as a specific area of practice and inquiry is relatively recent. Despite the wide adoption of the term a consensus about its meaning exists at only the broadest of levels. In short, urban education remains an ill-defined concept. This comprehensive volume addresses this definitional challenge and provides a 3-part conceptual model in which the achievement of equity for all -- regardless of race, gender, or ethnicity – is an ideal that is central to urban education. The model also posits that effective urban education requires attention to the three central issues that confronts all education systems (a) accountability of individuals and the institutions in which they work, (b) leadership, which occurs in multiple ways and at multiple levels, and (c) learning, which is the raison d'être of education. Just as a three-legged stool would fall if any one leg were weak or missing, each of these areas is essential to effective urban education and affects the others.

The Urban School System of the Future

Author : Andy Smarick
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1607094789
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Urban School System of the Future written by Andy Smarick and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of today’s and tomorrow’s inner-city kids, it must be replaced. The Urban School System of the Future argues that vastly better results can be realized through the creation of a new type of organization that properly manages a city’s portfolio of schools using the revolutionary principles of chartering. It will ensure that new schools are regularly created, that great schools are expanded and replicated, that persistently failing schools are closed, and that families have access to an array of high-quality options. This new entity will focus exclusively on school performance, meaning, among other things, our cities can thoughtfully integrate their traditional public, charter public, and private schools into a single, high-functioning k-12 system. For decades, the district has produced the most heartbreaking results for already at-risk kids. The Urban School System of the Future explains how we can finally turn the tide and create dynamic, responsive, high-performing, self-improving urban school systems that fulfill the promise of public education.

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools

Author : Linn Posey-Maddox
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612035X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools by : Linn Posey-Maddox

Download or read book When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools written by Linn Posey-Maddox and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to—and often end up becoming active in—urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Sensitively navigating the pros and cons of middle-class transformation, When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools asks whether it is possible for our urban public schools to have both financial security and equitable diversity. Drawing on in-depth research at an urban elementary school, Posey-Maddox examines parents’ efforts to support the school through their outreach, marketing, and volunteerism. She shows that when middle-class parents engage in urban school communities, they can bring a host of positive benefits, including new educational opportunities and greater diversity. But their involvement can also unintentionally marginalize less-affluent parents and diminish low-income students’ access to the improving schools. In response, Posey-Maddox argues that school reform efforts, which usually equate improvement with rising test scores and increased enrollment, need to have more equity-focused policies in place to ensure that low-income families also benefit from—and participate in—school change.

Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice

Author : David E. DeMatthews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351697331
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice written by David E. DeMatthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advocates for informed leaders who are aware of the larger historical, political-economic, sociological, and philosophical issues that surround the schools and communities they serve. Extending beyond mainstream conceptions of instructional leadership and broad social justice paradigms, Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice offers a multidisciplinary framework that helps leaders better serve the needs of their students, teachers, and communities. Exploring issues of urban school reform as it relates to the principal, as well as priorities that are relevant to the process of school improvement and the promotion of social justice, this book provides a critical, equity-oriented set of best practices grounded in research and empirical cases. This is a must-have resource for building consciousness, offering hope, and engaging in dialogical and collaborative leadership practices to radically transform schools and communities.

School Leadership in Times of Urban Reform

Author : Marilyn Bizar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135688125
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book School Leadership in Times of Urban Reform written by Marilyn Bizar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines schools in Chicago, where the largest experiment in site-based management & accountability is being enacted. An analysis allows insights relevant beyond this single site & permits pursuit of an agenda concerned w/ educational leadership & reform

Advancing the Development of Urban School Superintendents through Adaptive Leadership

Author : Sarah Chace
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317204727
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Advancing the Development of Urban School Superintendents through Adaptive Leadership by : Sarah Chace

Download or read book Advancing the Development of Urban School Superintendents through Adaptive Leadership written by Sarah Chace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a case study of urban school superintendents in a leadership development program, this book offers a concrete demonstration of how adaptive leadership is applied and learned. Blending the theory of adaptive leadership with the practice of urban school superintendents, this book also utilizes the analytic lens of transformative learning as developed by Jack Mezirow.

Urban Education for the 21st Century

Author : Festus E. Obiakor
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 039807612X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Education for the 21st Century by : Festus E. Obiakor

Download or read book Urban Education for the 21st Century written by Festus E. Obiakor and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book exposes the complexities and realities facing urbanness and urban schools that are inadequately funded and denigrated, along with students who continue to be misidentified, misassessed, miscategorized, misplaced, and misinstructed by illprepared and unprepared educators and service providers. The text very successfully demonstrates the comprehensive nature and connectedness of problems and prospects in urban education. This book will be an added resource to researchers, scholars, educators, and service providers. It should be an excellent required text for graduate and undergraduate courses in all branches of education. Addition-ally, the book will be of interest to education administrators at all levels, public school teachers, policy makers, and change agents. The thirteen chapters discuss and explore the following primary topics:• Urban education and the quest for democracy, equity, and excellence• Educating urban learners with and without special needs• Personnel preparation and urban schools• Teaching and learning in urban schools• Educational leadership in urban schools• Insights into educational psychology and what urban practitioners must know• Managing violence in urban schools• Financing urban schools• Reducing the power of “whiteness” in urban schools• Promises and challenges of building and the future perspectives of urban education.

Urban School Leadership in Siege, Conflict and Harmony

Author : Bruce Anthony Jones
Publisher : Information Age Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781593111700
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Urban School Leadership in Siege, Conflict and Harmony written by Bruce Anthony Jones and published by Information Age Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: State of Affairs: Across America. What is meant by urban. Why the focus on urban? (urban vs. rural vs. suburban). Leadership challenges in urban settings. Part II: Evolution of School Leadership Conceptual Frameworks. General history of educational leadership. Scientific models of leadership. Human relations model of leadership. Effective Schools and Instructional Leadership. Learner-centered leadership. Part III: Leadership and Policy Making Paradigms. Pluralist paradigm. Elite paradigm. Integrative theory. Systems theory. Part IV: Table Top Theory as a Model for Urban School Leadership: Case Studies. The St. Louis school district case study: Siege, conflict and harmony. The Kansas City school district case study: Siege, conflict and harmony. Part V: Urban School Leadership Preparation and Alternative Certification. Developing an urban focused curriculum. University faculty development for urban leadership preparation. Field-based/clinical development. Community-university partnerships and urban leadership preparation. Part VI: Professional Development for Urban School Leaders. Integrating education, communications and business. Institutionalizing professional development at the district level. Part VII: Leadership Succession. School leadership and legacy planning.